Articles from volume 6 issue 2

My Life as a Sandwich

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The time had come to make the change. Slow dial-up Internet was so 2005. Hello mobile broadband in 2007 – only slightly faster than dial-up. It was 2009 and time for me to have high speed Wi-Fi DSL at home. We started the process last November, assuming that it would be a simple installation–until we [...]

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Osteoporosis In Women: Keeping Bones Healthy

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by Ruchi Bhatia, MD, Sandford Clinic Women’s Health Internal Medicine
Of the more than 10 million people in the United States who have osteoporosis, 80 percent of them are women. As we age, our susceptibility to fractures increases due to loss of bone mass. This cannot only lead to fractures but can also give way to [...]

Shannon Vaske - Photo by Jessica Sauck

Finding Balance: A New Normal

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Achieving and maintaining balance means many different things to many different women. As a daughter, wife, mother, and working woman, Shannon Vaske’s life was a constant balancing act. Losing her balance physically shifted Shannon into unfamiliar territory and challenged her to redefine what it meant to have a “normal” life. When confronted with a serious [...]

Sonja Anderson - Photo by Jessica Sauck

Rosemaling Entrepreneur

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“My dad always told my siblings and me that we were one-half Norwegian, one-fourth Swedish, one-fourth German and all American,” says Sonja Anderson, the owner of Nordic World. For the past 27 years this vivacious entrepreneur has combined her artistic talent with her love of all things Scandinavian in a business which operates from the [...]

Garden Diva, Holly Larson - Photo by Jessica Sauck

Garden Diva: Sculpting Earth into Art

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Holly Larson became interested in horticulture early in life. “My mom definitely got me interested in gardening,” she says. “When I was little, she had a great big vegetable garden and later she converted it to a flower garden.” From there, her passion for landscape design took root.

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